Thursday 17 November 2011

COMPUTER KNOWLWDGE QUESTIONS FOR BANK EXAMS


1. The earliest calculating devices are?
a) Clock
b) Difference Engine
c) Abacus
d) Calculator

2. The basic operations performed by a computer are?
a) Arithmetic Operations
b) Logical Operations
c) Storage and relative
d) All of the above

3. The man who built the first Mec-hanical Calculator was?
a) Joseph Marie Jacquard
b) John Mauchly
c) Blaise Pascal
d) Harward Ailken

4. Punched cards were first introduced by?
a) Powers
b) Pascal
c) Jacquard
d) Herman Hollerith

5. LSTs(Large Integration) used in?
a) First generation
b) Second generation
c) Third generation
d) Fourth generation

6. What is MS Word?
a) A game
b) An Operating System
c) Word Processing Software
d) Typing tutor software

7. MS Excel is a?
a) Window based word processor package
b) Window based spreadsheet package
c) DOS based spreadsheet package
d) Window based accounting package

8. Power Point can display date from which of the following add-in software of MS-Office?
a) Equation Editor
b) Organization Chart
c) Photo Album
d) All of these

9. The first network that planted the seeds of Internet was?
a) ARPANET
b) NSF net
c) V net
d) I net

10. Abbreviation www in www.yahoo.com, stands for?
a) World Word in Wonder
b) World Wide Web
c) World Web is Widening
d) Wonderful World Web

11. What is Active Desktop?
a) A term that is synonymous with viewing your desktop as a web page
b) A feature to customize your desktop to display informat-ion you can update from the Internet.
c) Both (a) and (b) above mentioned.
d) Software

12. Active Window means?
a) The active window is designated by a different color toolbar than other open windows.
b) The window that currently open
c) Both (a) and (b) above mentioned
d) The window that is last used

13. A bitmap is?
a) Is a format which windows use for desktop wallpaper?
b) A graphic file format made up of small dots.
c) A specific kind of bitmap file with the BMP extention.
d) All of the above.

14. Which of the following printers generates character from a grid?
a) Inkjet
b) Laser
c) Daisy wheel
d) Dot matrix

15. Close Button?
a) When clicked will close the dialog box, document or program displayed in the window.
b) Is located at the right top end of the title bar of most Win-dows.
c) Implies for the small button with an X on it
d) All of the above

16. A dialog box is a one?
a) Which is a sort of on-screen from where you can fill in the blanks, make selections from lists and chose various combinations of options and settings.
b) In which you can connect to another Internet user and establish an audio and video contact using Microsoft Word.
c) In which you can give verbal commands to Microsoft Word menu
d) All of the above

17. A letter, memo, proposal or other file that is created using Microso-ft Word is called as?
a) Master
b) Slide
c) Document
d) Worksheet

18. The meaning of double-click is?
a) Pushing and releasing the main mouse button twice in rapid succession when the on-tree mouse pointer is positioned over the desired item
b) Appearance of an icon
c) To take a selection from the document and move it to the clipboard
d) All of the above

19. A folder: (A) is an organizational tool used to store files.(B) is synonymous with directory, but folder is the newer preferred term (C)contains data?

a) A only
b) B only
c) C only
d) None of the above

20. Commercially produced first computer?
a) IBM
b) MIPS
c) UNIVAC
d) EDSAC

21. Banks and other big organizations requiring large data storage use?
a) Laptop PC's
b) Desktop PC's
c) Mainframe Computer
d) Workstation

22. High Level Language useful for the beginners is?
a) BASIC
b) PASCAL
c) FORTRON
d) COBOL

23. For Scientific work the most popular language is?
a) PASCAL
b) FORTRON
c) COBOL
d) PROLOG

24. Which is not the portable computer?
a) Micro-processor
b) Calculator
c) Series Computes
d) Parallel Computers

25. OBJECT ORIENTED language is?
a) ADA
b) PROLOG
c) PASCAL
d) FORTRAN

26. Information is?
a) Summarization process of data
b) Data Information
c) Textual form of data
d) Facts and figures

27. Total memory of system can be known using?
a) DIR commands
b) MEM commands
c) Warm boot
d) TOT MEM commands

28. For running WINDOW minimum disk free space required is?
a) 8 MB
b) 10 MB
c) 16 MB
d) 32 MB

29. The first graphical web browser are?
a) Gopher
b) WAIS
c) CERN
d) Mosaic

30. The programs used to view web pages are called?
a) Clients
b) Server
c) Browser
d) Programmer

31. FTP means?
a) File Transfer Protocol
b) File Telnet Protocol
c) Fast Track Processing
d) Fine Tunning programs

32. Which among the following is faster than Main Memory?
a) RAM
b) ROM
c) Cache
d) None of the above

33. Semi Conductor Memory is known as?
a) RAM
b) ROM
c) PROM
d) EPROM

34. In which generation computers IC have been used?
a) First
b) Second
c) Third
d) Fourth

35. High level language is?
a) Machine Independent
b) Machine dependent
c) (a) And (b) are true
d) (a) And (b) are false

36. Hypertext is?
a) Text stored in the memory of the computer
b) Text displayed on the screen of the computer
c) Special text used in developing Internet developing package
d) A system of managing textual Information by creating associations between different documents

37. Information on a computer is sto-red in the form of?
a) Files
b) Folders
c) Directory
d) Data dictionary

38. TCP is?
a) Transfer control protocol
b) Transfer control process
c) Transmission control protocol
d) Transmission control process

39. Every computer on the Internet is known as?
a) Host
b) Client
c) Modem
d) Server

40. Fax machines are used to send documents through a?
a) Telephone line
b) Modems
c) Co-axial Wire
d) All of these

41.The term overflow means?
a) An excess of Internal storage
b) An excess of external storage
c) A situation where record cannot fit in to its right place
d) A device, which controls the level of humidity in the computer room.


42. In computer science, by Informa-tion we mean?
a) Any output coming out from computer
b) A report printed by computer
c) Processed data put in intelligent form
d) Plural of data

43. Which of the following are parts of the CPU?
a) Secondary Memory
b) Control unit
c) Input device
d) Printer

44. The purpose of an application program is to?
a) Meet specific user needs
b) Make equivalent run better
c) Allow the operating system to control resources better
d) Convert program written in high-level language to machine level language

45. Micro computers are?
a) 8 bit
b) 16 bit
c) 32 bit
d) Either 8 or 16 bit

ANSWERS:

1. (c) 2. (d) 3. (c) 4. (d) 5. (d) 6. (c) 7. (b) 8. (d) 9. (a) 10. (b)
11. (c) 12. (c) 13. (d) 14. (d) 15. (d) 16. (a) 17. (c) 18. (a) 19. (d) 20. (c)
21. (c) 22. (d) 23. (b) 24. (d) 25. (a) 26. (a) 27. (b) 28. (a) 29. (d) 30. (c)
31. (a) 32. (c) 33. (a) 34. (c) 35. (a) 36. (d) 37. (a) 38. (c) 39. (a) 40. (a)
41. (a) 42. (c) 43. (b) 44. (a) 45. (d)

Wednesday 16 November 2011

COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE MCQs FOR BANK EXAMS

1. ______Is the most widely used medium for telecommunications
a) Twisted Pair
b) Coaxial Cable
c) Optical Fiber
d) None
 
2. ______Is widely used medium of communication for cable television systems
a) Twisted Pair
b) Coaxial Cable
c) Optical fiber
d) None
 
3. ______Cable consists of one or more filaments of glass fiber wrapped in protective layers that
carries data by means of pulses of light
a) Twisted Pair
b) Coaxial Cable
c) Optical fiber
d) None
 
4. ______Is a computer network used for communications among computers and different information technological devices close to one person
a) Personal Area Network
b) Local Area Network
c) Metropolitan Area Network
d) Wide Area Network
 
5. ______Is a collection of conceptual tools for describing data, data relationships, data semantics
and constraints
a) Data base
b) Data Model
c) E_R Model
d) None
 
6. Association among two or more entities called
a) Entity
b) Entity set
c) Relationship
d) Degree of relation
 
7. DDL stands for
a) Data Definition Language
b) Data Delete Language
c) Data Device Language
d) Database Definition Language
 
8. SDL stands for
a) Storage Definition Language
b) Save Definition Language
c) Storage Database Language
d) Shortcut Definition Language
 
9. DML stands for
a) Date Manipulation Language
b) Database Manipulation Language
c) Data Manuscript Language
d) Data Manipulation Language
 
10. ____Is the language that enable user to access or manipulate data as organized by appropriate
data model
a) DML
b) SDL
c) DDL
d) All of the above
 
11. ____Is the language to specify the internal schema. (This language may specify the mapping between two schemas)
a) DML
b) SDL
c) DDL
d) None of the above
 
12. All candidate keys excluding the primary key are known as
a) Compound key
b) Partial key
c) Alternative key
d) None of the above
 
13. The user commands that are used to interact with a database is called as
a) Query
b) Interaction
c) Command
d) Instruction
 
14. The updates that are applied to database before it becomes effective in real world
a) Retroactive update
b) Proactive update
c) Simultaneous update
d) All of the above
 
15. The updates that are applied to database after it becomes effective in real world
a) Retroactive update
b) Proactive update
c) Simultaneous update
d) All of the above
 
16. The updates that are applied to database at the same time when it becomes effective in real
world?
a) Retroactive update
b) Proactive update
c) Simultaneous update
d) All of the above
 
17. Match the following (select the test by using the key board)
a) A word from its beginning to its end
b) A paragraph from its begging to its end
c) The entire document
1. CTRL+ DOWN ARROW
2. CTRL+LEFT ARROW
3.CTRL+SHIFT+RIGHTARROW
a) a-3,b-1,c-2
b) a-3,b-2,c-3
c) a-3,b-2,c-1
d) a-2,b-3,c-1
 
18. Match the following (Move through your document)
a) One character to the left
b) One character to the right
c) One word to the left
d) One word to the right
1. CTRL+RIGHT ARROW
2. CTRL+LEFT ARROW
3. RIGHT ARROW
4. LEFT ARROW
a) a-4,b-3,c-2,d-1
b) a-4,b-2,c-3,d-1
c) a-1,b-3,c-4,d-2
d) a-2,b-1,c-3,d-4
 
19. Match the following (To move)
a) One paragraph down
b) To the beginning of a document
c) To the end of a document
d) Up one screen at a line
e) Down one screen at a time
1. CTRL+END
2. PAGE DOWN
3. CTRL+HOME
4. CTRL+DOWN ARROW
5. PAGE UP
a) a-5,b-3,c-1,d-4,e-2
b) a-4,b-3,c-2,d-5,e-1
c) a-3,b-4,c-1,d-5,e-2
d) a-4,b-3,c-1,d-5,e-2
 
20. In a word document Red underline indicates
a) Possible spelling error/word doesn't recognize a word
b) Word thinks that grammar should be revised
c) A word is spelled correctly, but does not seem to be the correct word sentence
d) All of the above
 
21. In a word document Green underline indicates
a) Possible spelling error/word doesn't recognize a word
b) Word thinks that grammar should be revised
c) A word is spelled correctly, but does not seem to be the correct word sentence
d) All of the above
 
22. In a word document Blue underline indicates?
a) Possible spelling error/word doesn't recognize a word
b) Word thinks that grammar should be revised
c) A word is spelled correctly, but does not seem to be the correct word sentence
d) All of the above
 
23. By default the Microsoft word document will be saved into a folder called
a) Desktop
b) My documents
c) D drive
d) Personal folder
 
24. What is the default file name for the word document?
a) Taken from the text at the start of the document
b) Word document
c) Both (a) and (b)
d) None of the above
 
25. In word-2010____is the key to see numbers and letters displayed over icons, tabs or commands towards the top of your screen?
a) Ctrl key
b) Tab key
c) Alt key
d) None of the above
 
26. ____ Is the keyboard shortcut key to close the word program
a) Alt+F4
b) Alt+F5
c) Alt+F6
d) Alt+F7
 
27. How will you remove all formatting added to your documents (such as bold, italics, and underline etc.)
a) Save
b) Save as plain text file
c) Save as
d) All of the above
 
28. _____Is the file format we can use to distribute the document to some one using totally different word processing program from a different software manufacturer, such as word perfect
a) Word document (.doc)
b) Rich Text Format (.RTF)
c) Both (a) and (b)
d) None of the above
 
29. _____Is the Icon to magnify or reduce the display
a) Print layout
b) Zoom
c) View
d) All of the above
 
30. Match the following
a) Cut 1. CTRL+C
b) Copy 2. CTRL+V
c) Paste 3. CTRL+X
a) a-1, b-3, c-2
b) a-2, b-1, c-3
c) a-3, b-1, c-2
d) a-3, b-2, c-1
 
31. What is text formatting?
a) Formatting characters and words with in a document
b) Saving the word document
c) Both (a) and (b)
d) None of the above
 
32. By default MS-Word 2010 uses a font called
a) Arial
b) Times New roman
c) Tahoma
d) Caliber
 
33. Superscript refers to____
a) Characters displayed below the line of the normal text
b) Characters displayed above the line of the normal text
c) Both (a) and (b)
d) None
 
34. Subscript refers to ___
a) Characters displayed below the line of the normal text
b) Characters displayed above the line of the normal text
c) Both (a) and (b)
d) None
 
35. (a+b)2 is an example for ----
a) Subscript
b) Superscript
c) Both (a) and (b)
d) None
 
36. CO2 is an example for ---
a) Subscript
b) Superscript
c) Both (a) and (b)
d) None
 
37. You need to find a particular word or phrase and replace this item with alternative text, what is
the keyboard shortcut key
a) Ctrl+G
b) Ctrl+P
c) Ctrl+H
d) Ctrl+F
 
38. _____Is the path to create Header/Footer
a) Insert/Header & Footer
b) File/Header & Footer
c) Edit/Header & Footer
d) None of the above
 
39. __ Is the path to create footnotes
a) References/footnote
b) Insert/footnote
c) Edit/footnote
d) None
 
40. _____ Is the path to save a document in PDF format
a) Edit/Save as/PDF/Save
b) File/Save as/PDF/Save
c) Both (a) and (b)
d) None of the above


ANSWERS:
1) a 2) b 3) c 4) a 5) b 6) c 7) a 8) a 9) d 10) a 11) b 12) c 13) a 14) b 15) a 16) c 17) a 18) a 19) d 20) a 21) b 22) c 23) b 24) a 25) c 26) a 27) b 28) b 29) b 30) c 31) a 32) d 33) b 34) a 35) b 36) a 37)c 38) a 39) a 40) b

Monday 14 November 2011

COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE PRACTICE QUESTIONS

1. A terabyte comprises
(a) 1024 gigabyte 
(b) 1024 kilobyte
(c) 1024 megabyte 
(d) 1024 byte

2. The access time refers to
(a) Time required to locate and retrieve stored data
(b) Time required to locate the lost data
(c) Time required to delete specific data on a certain memory location
(d) None of the above

3. Select the smallest memory size.
(a) Terabyte 
(b) Gigabyte
(c) Kilobyte 
(d) Megabyte

4. The type of RAM that works by staying on the row containing the requested bit and moves faster
through the columns reading each bit as it goes is
(a) DDR SDRAM 
(b) SDRAM
(c) FPM DRAM 
(d) RDRAM

5. The ROM chip which can be rewritten several times and requires the action of ultraviolet radiations to
erase its contents is
(a) Flash memory
(b) PROM
(c) EEPROM
(d) EPROM

6. The type of memory that uses in-circuit wiring to erase the content by applying electric field is
(a) PROM 
(b) Flash memory
(c) EAROM 
(d) EEPROM

7. Dynamic memory is also called as
(a) Internal processor memory 
(b) Primary memory
(c) External storage memory 
(d) Non-volatile memory

8. The memory which is utmost accessible to the processor is
(a) Cache memory 
(b) RAM
(c) Hard disk 
(d) Flash memory

9. The storage device that has high cost per bit of storage is
(a) SDRAM 
(b) Cache memory
(c) Read only Memory 
(d) Hard disk

10. The dual-port version of DRAM formerly used in graphics adaptors is
(a) FPM DRAM 
(b) EDO DRAM
(c) VRAM
(d) DDR SDRAM

11. The secondary storage device that follows the sequential mode of access is
(a) Optical Disk 
(b) Magnetic Disk
(c) Magnetic Tape 
(d) None of these

12. FPI stands for
(a) Faults per inch 
(b) Frames per inch
(c) Figure per inch 
(d) Film per inch

13. The most common type of floppy size is
(a) 3½-inch 
(b) 5¼-inch
(c) 4¾-inch 
(d) None of these

14. A spiral shape track formatting is present in
(a) Floppy Disk (b) Optical Disk
(c) Hard Disk (d) Half-inch Tape Cartridge

15. A floppy can be write protected by
(a) Breaking the slider
(b) Positioning the slider to cover the hole
(c) Positioning the slider away from the hole
(d) A floppy cannot be write protected

16. Rotational delay time is also known as
(a) Seek time 
(b) Shift time
(c) Latency 
(d) Access time

17. The average drives have an access time of
(a) 14-29 ms 
(b) 9-14 ms
(c) 60-70 ms 
(d) None of these

18. In which kind of disk does the read/write head physically touches the surface?
(a) Hard Disk (b) Compact Disk
(c) Floppy Disk (d) None of these

19. RAID stands for
(a) Reproduce Array of Intelligent Disks
(b) Reproduce Array of Inexpensive Disks
(c) Redundant Array of Inexpensive Drives
(d) Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks

20. CD-ROM is a kind of
(a) Optical disk 
(b) Magneto-Optical disk
(c) Magnetic disk 
(d) None of these

ANSWERS
1. (a)
2. (a)
3. (c)
4. (b)
5. (d)
6. (d)
7. (d)
8. (a)
9. (b)
10. (c)
11. (c)
12. (b)
13. (a)
14. (b)
15. (c)
16. (c)
17. (b)
18. (c)
19. (d)
20. (a)